FOOTBALL: Premier League: Tottenham post-match reaction (Frank)

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Tottenham head coach Thomas Frank reflects on his side's 2-0 win away to Manchester City in the Premier League

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00:00非常感激烈,非常感激烈

00:21非常感激烈,非常感激烈

00:27I think it was exceptionally good performance

00:31I think the first 35 minutes, we know a couple of things

00:33we know it's always difficult to play against City

00:35here at Etihad, even more difficult

00:39the first 35 minutes of thought was fairly even

00:42but with City on top, I think they were more on top than us

00:47big mentality shift in terms of staying in the game

00:51and keep doing what we wanted to do

00:53scoring a great goal

00:56maybe that changed a little bit of momentum

00:58but we definitely stayed on top, going 2-0

01:00second half, I think we were very good

01:03and the big spell where we could think that they would put pressure on us

01:08I think we were very aggressive in the high pressure

01:10and thought that we were very front-footed

01:13with the mindset to constantly go for the 3-0 goal

01:16and then I must say that the clean sheet makes me very happy

01:23it's a big thing we've been working on

01:26not on clean sheets, that's easier said than done

01:29but on the defensive side of the game, high pressure

01:32middle block, low block, defender box, mentality, blocking shots, everything

01:37because if you get clean sheets, you're closer to win a game

01:40and also last year we had six clean sheets

01:43so that's very big for me

01:46so many good individual performances of course

01:48but you've got Jao Pelinha in

01:50first goal for the club

01:51how important is that kind of combination with Rodrigo Bentico?

01:54I think it's fair to say that we got a few questions about transfer market yesterday

02:00and a lot about why not and what if and all that

02:04but I'm 100% sure we brought two top players into the club

02:08Kudos and Pelinha, both of them performed very well

02:11which I'm very pleased with

02:13and Pelinha, wow, you know, sometimes players need confidence

02:19and they need to be on top

02:21and I actually don't think he's fully fit yet

02:24where I want him to be

02:26but I'm very pleased with his performance

02:28and he's definitely helping the team

02:31Obviously in the Super Cup you were 2-0 up

02:34and you played really well but you couldn't get over the line that time

02:37but at this time obviously felt very different

02:39what were the lessons you took from the Super Cup

02:41and what was different today?

02:42I think...yeah, good question

02:47we of course reference it or I reference it at halftime

02:50when you're tired, keep going

02:52that was one thing

02:54two, that we had to keep being brave on the ball

02:57and three, we had to keep being good in the high pressure

03:00but also that's easier said than done

03:02but from every game you learn

03:04from games where you not get the result you want

03:07you learn maybe even more

03:10and then I think in some ways of course the other thing was a final

03:15this was away at Etihad

03:16one of the most difficult places to go to

03:18but the defensive principles are more and more

03:23and then I think the mentality is the key thing

03:25need mentality to win games like this

03:27you spoke yesterday about for each match

03:29how you sort of compile three key themes

03:31build your principles around that

03:33what were the three key ones that you felt

03:35defensive side of the game

03:39be brave in phase one and two

03:41and set pieces

03:43I think that's very very easy

03:58never ever use one word about any player

04:00it's not in our club

04:02Thomas

04:04I think it was one of your counterparts Jürgen Klopp

04:07that said something along the lines of

04:09there's no better playmaker in football

04:11than an effective press essentially

04:14what did you make of that statement

04:15and did you think

04:16who said that, sorry?

04:17Jürgen Klopp?

04:18Jürgen Klopp, yeah

04:19was a good, clever man

04:24I need to text him and say hey, that's okay, clever

04:28I definitely believe in the aggressive press

04:35as you saw today

04:37as you saw with my Brentford team

04:39you know, I believe in the high pressure

04:40I believe in if we can be front footed

04:42I like that mentality

04:43I think it's offensive

04:44you know, it's more offensive way of defending

04:47and then it's more fun to defend on the other

04:49on the opponent's half

04:52and of course today I think we're very successful

04:54also score a goal from it

04:55so yeah, happy

04:59I suppose Sarah as well

05:01someone that's played in that number 10 position again today

05:03moved back I suppose more to like an 8 last week

05:06but pushed into that position again today

05:08against PSG a similar thing

05:09so effective in that kind of pressing role

05:12yeah, definitely

05:13and you can say there's a few things

05:15it depends from game to game

05:17players in different positions

05:21systems

05:23but today he was very good

05:26like the rest of the team

05:27I think it was difficult to pick one player today

05:28I think everyone performed fantastic

05:30Hi Thomas, for the first goal

05:33you managed to beat the Man City offside trap

05:35it seemed to cause a lot of uncertainty

05:37putting the ball over the top

05:38is that something that you had pinpointed as to exploit?

05:42Yeah, we talk about the high line

05:45and one thing is to talk about it and try to train it

05:48it's never that easy

05:49so to be fair I also think we ran into offside six times before that

05:53so of course the goal looks very successful

05:56and that's what we look at

05:58but there's a few times where we didn't do it well enough

06:00but yes of course we tried to look into it

06:03Hi Thomas

06:05Hi

06:06You went here a couple of years ago

06:07with an outstanding performance from your Brentford team

06:09was this performance even better

06:11given that you've only just started to put your fingerprint on this first side?

06:15I think it's two different teams, two different contexts

06:19but I think that both performances were top

06:23and both performance when I look back at and be very proud of

06:28Final question please

06:29Hi Thomas, you referenced earlier that you had quite a lot of questions

06:32about the transfer market in the build-up to this game

06:34but is the result of the performance a timely reminder

06:37that the success of a season, the success of a team

06:39is not just about what you can do in a transfer market

06:41and the players you can bring in?

06:42I think it's extremely important that a couple of things that we understand

06:48we have a good group of players, talented group of players

06:52a group of quality players that I'm very pleased with

06:57so that's why we brought in two good players to help

07:03Can we improve it? Perfect!

07:06If we can't, then we have very good players

07:09we just showed that today

07:11So yeah, very happy with that

07:14Thank you

07:15Thank you guys, thank you

07:17Thank you

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